Managing the news cycle firehose

Aug272014

Managing the news cycle firehose

Submitted by Cybrarian on Wed, 08/27/2014 - 07:52

There once was a time, children, when you consumed news in a few well-organized ways — a daily newspaper, a nightly news broadcast, an hourly radio update. Now, the flow is constant and you have to organize it yourself, Jihii Jolly writes: "In the same way that financial literacy requires knowing how money works and the most effective methods for managing it, news literacy requires familiarity with how journalism is made and with the most effective ways to consume it."